How do pre-service teachers rate their professional digital competence? - An intervention study for the promotion of professional digital competence with a focus on computational thinking in the…

This quantitative study investigates the state of professional digital competence of (pre-service) teachers as well as university possibilities for initiating an expansion of competence (N = 295). Main focus is on computational thinking, as teachers are tasked with teaching digital competence to students in order to prepare them for future developments in digitization and the resulting impact on learning, teaching, and life. As part of the research project »Lernroboter im Unterricht« an intervention seminar is designed, which offers approaches to learning with, about and through algorithms on the basis of educational robotics, makes technological phenomena comprehensible and increases professional digital competence among students. The aim is to generate implications for teacher training and to make the potentials of educational robotics accessible for the teaching of competencies (not only) at universities by including specific teaching strategies. Review: Professor Dr. Horst Zeinz (Universität Münster), Professor Dr. Ferdinand Stebner (Universität Osnabrück) Disputation: 10.10.2023